is @ operator popular now?

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Sat Jul 15 09:05:24 EDT 2017


Matt Wheeler wrote:

>> as the title says. has @ been used in projects?

numpy, probably?

> Strictly speaking, @ is not an operator.

In other words it's not popular, not even widely known.

Compare:

$ python3.4 -c '__peter__ at web.de'
  File "<string>", line 1
    __peter__ at web.de
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
$ python3.5 -c '__peter__ at web.de'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name '__peter__' is not defined

Starting with 3.5 my email address is valid Python syntax. Now I'm waiting 
for the __peter__ builtin ;)




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